Naturalistic Decision Making (Expertise: Research and Applications Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080581874X ISBN 13: 9780805818741

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997

Synopsis

If you aren't using the term naturalistic decision making, or NDM, you soon will be. Even as a very young field, NDM has already had far-reaching applications in areas as diverse as management, aviation, health care, nuclear power, military command and control, corporate teamwork, and manufacturing.

Put simply, NDM is the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or task. Of particular interest to NDM researchers are the effects of high-stake consequences, shifting goals, incomplete information, time pressure, uncertainty, and other conditions that are present in most of today's work places and that add to the complexity of decision making. Applications of NDM research findings target decision aids and training that help people in their decision-making processes.

This book reports the findings of top NDM researchers, as well as many of their current applications. In addition, the book offers a historical perspective on the emergence of this new paradigm, describes recent theoretical and methodological advancements, and points to future developments. It was written for people interested in decision making research and applications relative to a diverse array of work settings and products such as human-computer interfaces, decision support systems, individual and team training, product designs, and organizational development and planning.

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Review:

This is an interesting and valuable book, especially for those who...are sympathetic to the NDM movement....It is a remarkably rich and stimulating set of readings.
—Cognitive Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 080581874X
• ISBN 13: 9780805818741
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 430
• Editor: Zsambok Caroline E.